Land use is the end to which land is allocated, assuming a conscious decision to use it for a desired end 15, 20. Despite all these, agricultural practices in nigeria is not as good as it used to be in time past, and the contribution of the agricultural sctor to the nigerian economy is quite low. Agricultural land assessments 4 land devoted to the harvesting of hardwood timber. Total area of nigeria agricultural land in nigeria. This is exemplified by the fact that more than 70 percent of nigerians are involved in this sector olayide, 1980. The impact of government policies on agricultural productivity and structure.
This model was the only approaches to intensification of agricultural. Types of traditional land tenure systems and agricultural productivity there is quite a handful of taxonomical analysis of land tenure system within nigeria alone. In the rural areas, land use patterns are governed mainly by the requirements of the agricultural industry, which is important for the livelihood of the people. Assessment of agricultural practices on residential land. The challenges of agriculture and rural development in africa. Importance of agricultural land use evaluation in nigeria. Agricultural land use change and disappearance of farmlands in kaduna metropolis nigeria. As long as agriculture was the principal use of the land in the preceding years, the land qualifies, even if the agricultural use did not. The collected data was analyzed by the use of bar graphs arranged in columns.
Total area of nigeria agricultural land in nigeria arable. In nigeria, the nigerdelta communities are mostly cited as examples of environmentally degraded rural areas. That in spite of the incursion of the act in the land tenure system of nigeria, customary law still dominates and. Iii the impact of urbanization on rural land use christopher bryant encyclopedia of life support systems eolss the impact of urbanization on rural land use christopher bryant department of geography, university of montreal, montreal, canada.
Farmers cooperatives and agricultural development in kwali. A comparative analysis of agricultural land use in ikere. An overview land use cover changes are influenced by a variety of factors operating on more than one spatial and temporal level and acting not in isolation but in intricate webs of place. Pdf agricultural land management policies in southsouth. Agriculture in nigeria is a branch of the economy in nigeria, providing employment for about 30% of the population as of 2010. This was more so because the military government which promulgated it also ensured it was embedded in the constitution of the country.
Land use, land cover, and trends in nigeria west africa. This study investigated intensification of rural agricultural land use as a response to the changing agroecological context in the benue basin. The geographic information system approach akpomrere, o. State of the worlds forests 2016 could not be better timed, as fao is gearing up to fulfil its key role in helping countries develop national plans, policies and programmes to achieve the sustainable development goals sdgs. Development of nigerias agricultural subsector will be imperative if meaningful and sustainable national development is envisaged. Justification nigerian agricultural sector was characterized by dwindling onfarm outputs and miserable overall sector performance.
Prior to 1978, nigerias system of customary land tenure provided families and individuals with use rights to rural land for agriculture and urbantown plots for housing that were heritable within families and lineages. Problems of agriculture in nigeria have been and will always be linked to bad leadership, mismanagement, wrong setting of priorities and neglect from the government. Pdf spatial impacts of rural population pressure on. Sustainable management of agricultural land and crop productivity. These factors make it a region to test the impact of conflict on household land use decisions. In 1975, agricultural land covered 184,754 km2 20% of nigeria land area.
Conceptual database model for agricultural land use. Our paper begins with a consideration of the causal relationships among productivity, farm structure, government farm payments and public investments in research and extension. How many of each type of land belongs to each man live in the country. This translated agricultural lands in nigeria into a national cropland of constant quality and it eliminated difficulties of measuring land use intensity usually. Spatial impacts of rural population pressure on agricultural land use in nigeria article pdf available in applied spatial analysis and policy 52 june 2012 with 609 reads how we measure reads. The climate and soil in nigeria supports the growth of many foods and cash crops. Land use control and natural resource management in nigeria. There were no significant differences in nigerias agricultural land resources quality index among the five decades of time. Pdf intensification of arable agricultural land use as a. Largescale farmers will also benefit from a liberal import policy in respect of agricultural machinery. So, what are the prospects of a green deal for agriculture in nigeria.
From 1975 to 2000,000 km2 of new agricultural land were gained. Nigeria s agriculture and food security challenges. The aim of this study is to examine the effects of agricultural practices on residential land use in ipinsa village, akure, ondo state, with a view of suggesting measures of improving. Preliminary results mary ahearn, jet yee, and wallace huffman abstract. However, less than 50% of the countrys cultivable agricultural land is under cultivation because smallholders farmers often use rudimentary production techniques to cultivate most of the land thereby. Effect of conservation agriculture practices on crop yields in nigeria and zimbabwe.
Agricultural landuse change and disappearance of farmlands in kaduna metropolisnigeria. Pdf access to urban agricultural land in ibadan, nigeria. The land use and allocation committee shall be presided over bysuch one of its members as may be designated bythe governor and, subject to. Nigeria is blessed with a land mass of about 98 million hectares, out of which 83 million hectares are suitable for cultivation but with only 30 to 34 million hectares presently under cultivation. Impact of environmental degradation on agricultural. Outcomes can involve, for example, a guaranteed supply level, price stability, product quality, product selection, land use or employment. Problems of agricultural development in nigeria and. Nigeria law land use act chapter 202 laws of the federation of nigeria 1990 arrangement of sections part i. However, not only for nigerias pastoralists livestock keeping plays an integral role for their livelihood. Land use patterns and economic development of ikeja in. Fencing agricultural land in nigeria misereor working paper roger blench revised final version 1 1. Land use patterns and economic development of ikeja in lagos state, nigeria. Agricultural development intervention programmes in nigeria.
Pdf agricultural landuse change and disappearance of. Through this, objectivesgoals, achievements as well as problems that hindered realization of the. Agricultural landuse change and disappearance of farmlands. Agricultural policies take into consideration the primary, secondary and tertiary processes in agricultural production.
The challenges of agriculture and rural development in. Iii the impact of urbanization on rural land use christopher bryant encyclopedia of life support systems eolss we differentiate between push and pull factors, highlighting the experience of different. Overall, we see that agricultural land per person is higher than that of arable land. Economic assessment of agricultural land market in rural nigeria. It is very surprising to imagine that nigeria depended solely on agriculture as the main source for revenue generation via the export of cash crops. Agriculture remains the main stay of the rural economy in nigeria as it provides employment for about 70% of the work force. The sector is being transformed by commercialization at the small, medium and largescale enterprise levels. Land policies and agricultural productivity in nigeria reports of ukaejiofo 2007 and olayiwola and adeleye 2006 showed that traditional tenure system placed major constraints upon the achievement of efficient agricultural production and physical development, which led to land use. The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the food and agriculture organization of the united nations fao concerning the legal. For instance, in nigeria, the rural population depends on agriculture for sustenance and income generation. In nigeria, this right came with the land use act of 1978 which recognizes the right of occupancy as the only interest in land in nigeria according to okoronkwo 2009, the right inherent in the certificate of occupancy does not confer proprietary rights of ownership of land to the holder but of occupancy and use. Nigeria land cover time series 1975, 2000, and 20 download land cover and graphs data. Prior to the land use decree of 1978, the nigerian land tenure system had become the object of intense attack and defence by vested interests promoting their views on changes in the tenure system which would best increase food and fibre production.
Prior to 1978, nigeria s system of customary land tenure provided families and individuals with use rights to rural land for agriculture and urbantown plots for housing that were heritable within families and lineages. The importance of sustainability of agricultural production system is. Salinity and sodium hazards of three streams of different. Therefore, where the pressure on land is not very great, potential largescale farmers will be assisted to acquire land. Learn how the world bank group is helping countries with covid19 coronavirus. May 07, 2018 nigeria is supposed to be a country where food supply should be in abundance as a result of its vast agricultural land. The rapid and unplanned growth of ibadan has limited farmers access to land for urban agriculture purposes, especially in the urban local government areas lgas. Pdf this study examined the practice and changes in agricultural land use. A comparative analysis of agricultural land use in ikere ekiti, nigeria ogundare babatope andrew department of geography,college of education,ikere ekiti, nigeria abstract agriculture is the mainstay of nigerians. The study covered the key issues on nigerian agricultural policies especially as it concerned the formulation and implementation of agricultural policies and programmes as well as their achievements in the agricultural sector in nigeria. Food and agriculture organization, electronic files and web site. This is a survey type of research and the instrument used for this study was a questionnaire developed by me for the purpose of this study.
Problems of agricultural development in nigeria and possible. Land use planning, agriculture, residential land use, food crop, farmers. Agricultural use for purposes of this section includes but is not limited to the uses included in the definition of agricultural use in ic 3674616b, such as the production of livestock or livestock products. Intensification of land use in existing villages was followed by pioneer settlement, the establishment of new villages and the opening up of forest or jungle were a series of successive change from neolithic forest fallow to system of shifting cultivation on bush and grass land.
Original article salinity and sodium hazards of three streams of different agricultural land use systems in ileife, nigeria a. Urban expansion and agricultural land use in periurban. If we extend our land coverage above from arable land use to total agricultural land which is the sum of arable, permanent crops and pastures and meadows, we still see overall declines in land per person but with different rates and patterns of reduction. Nigeria landlinks landlinks was created by e3land, a. The 2030 agenda recognizes that we can no longer look at food, livelihoods and the management of natural. Pdf agricultural land management policies in southsouth, nigeria. In 20, rainfed agriculture accounted for 380,000 sq km in nigeria, covering over 40 percent of. Faostat provides free access to food and agriculture data for over 245 countries and territories and covers all fao regional groupings from 1961 to the most recent year available. Special focus land use in nigeria prior to the land use decree of 1978, the nigerian land tenure system had become the object of intense attack and defence by vested interests promoting their views on changes in the tenure system which would best increase food and fibre production. The objectives were to describe the changing agroecology of the region that is stimulating this response. Agriculture improves food security in many ways, most. The chapter used secondary data obtained from the world bank website, national bureau of statistics nbs and other sources. Agriculture practices in nigeria agriculture nigeria.
Problems of agriculture in nigeria nigerian finder. Not surprisingly, the country that is home to the largest population of the region also has by far the largest area under cultivation. Effects of agricultural practices on residential land use in ipinsa. Land acquisition and use remain a critical issue of great policy relevance in developing countries such as nigeria. This will be effected through appropriate land use and land resources strategies outlined in sections 2. In the northeastern nigeria, agriculture is the predominant land use, agriculture is highly dependent on land, and many attacks have been in rural areas. The study investigated the constraints to agricultural development in nigeria using time series data spanning the period 1970 2010 and contemporary econometric methods of unit root test, cointegration and errorcorrection mechanism. Agricultural development intervention programmes in. Access to urban agricultural land in ibadan, nigeria. The declining agricultural land resources quality was one of the. Agriculture, environment, nigeria, resource, sustainability. Unesco eolss sample chapters the role of food, agriculture, forestry and fisheries in human nutrition vol. Land cover is the observed biophysical cover of the earths surface, but land use reflects the actions of people and their intentions.
Despite all these, agricultural practices in nigeria is not as good as it used to be in time past, and the contribution of the agricultural. Agricultural land % of land area from the world bank. Agriculture in nigeria could use a little push at strategic points if success is to be achieved, there is a need for the education of farmers, most farmer in nigeria who engage in subsistence agriculture have very little knowledge of the operational method of the improved agricultural system. This research work assesses the impact of agricultural policies on nigerian economy. The oil companies have been blamed as the perpetrators of environmental. Nigeria is supposed to be a country where food supply should be in abundance as a result of its vast agricultural land. Although the land use act of 1978 was meant to usher in a new land reform in nigeria, it soon became a clog in the wheel of development over the years. Nchuchuwe, friday francis department of public administration, faculty of management sciences, lagos state university. Assessment of agricultural practices on residential land use. Development of nigeria s agricultural subsector will be imperative if meaningful and sustainable. Agricultural development intervention programmes in nigeria 1960 to date.
Effect of agricultural land use on carbon sequestration. Pdf importance of agricultural land use evaluation in. An act to vest all land compromised in the territory of each state except land vested in the federal government or its agencies solely in the governor of the state, who would hold such land in trust for the people and would henceforth be responsible for allocation of land in all urban areas to individuals resident in the. This study therefore examined land acquisition and use in nigeria within the context of food and livelihood security. In urban areas, competition for productive agricultural land has. In rural areas, declining soil fertility and soil erosion threaten the ability to produce sufficient food.
The overall objective of this study was to capture the real changes in nigeria s agricultural land resources quality in terms of soil fertility and productivity. Agriculture in africa 57 the agricultural sector in africa is operating in an entirely new. The role of food, agriculture, forestry and fisheries in human nutrition vol. The land must have been used principally for an agricultural use for five of the seven years preceding the year when an application is filed.
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